HAY FESTIVAL 2018 PROGRAMME

Event 56

Cartes Postales from Greece

Saturday 27 May 2017, 10am
Venue: Oxfam Moot

The beloved, bestselling author’s new novel is illustrated with photographs that make this journey around Greece, already alive in the imagination, linger forever in the mind. Hislop’s other Greek novels include The Island and The Thread.

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Event 57

BBC Talking Books 1: This is Not a Border

Saturday 27 May 2017, 10am
Venue: Baillie Gifford Stage

The Egyptian novelist discusses her writing and her heroic Palfest festival, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year with an anthology This Is Not a Border: Reportage and Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature. Soueif’s fiction includes In The Eye of the Sun and The Map of Love. Her non-fiction work includes Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed.

This event will be recorded for broadcast on the BBC World News programme Talking Books

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Event 58

A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess

Saturday 27 May 2017, 10am
Venue: Good Energy Stage

The best-selling author describes the age-old cycle of a farming year and the constant challenges of life at Ravenseat, the remote Yorkshire hill farm she shares with husband Clive, nine children and 1,000 sheep. Chaired by Oliver Balch, author of Under the Tump.

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Event 59

BBC World News

Saturday 27 May 2017, 10am
Venue: BBC Tent

Experience the BBC’s flagship science and technology TV show live on stage. Host Spencer Kelly has spent 15 years exploring the world of technology and returns to Hay for a second year with tales of robot waiters, drones that fly underwater and cars that drive themselves.

A Click Hay Festival special will be broadcast on the BBC News Channel and on BBC World News

Event HD6

Super High-tech Robot Show

Saturday 27 May 2017, 10am
Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage

Ever wondered how robots work, what they do and why we even have them? Join the Science Museum as they take you on an amazing interactive journey into the world of robots. Discover how we program them, how they’re engineered and which is better – robot technology or human biology. This exciting and engaging science show features incredible live robot demonstrations and experiments that will blow your circuits.

9+

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Event HD8

Traitor to the Throne and Nanodel

Saturday 27 May 2017, 10am
Venue: Cube

Alwyn Hamilton and Maria Turtschaninoff have both recently completed their second titles in powerful trilogies set in richly imagined worlds. Join the authors as they discuss the challenges and opportunities of creating whole new worlds and the people who live in them. Chaired by Daniel Hahn.

11+

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Event HD105

Saturday 27 May 2017, 10am
Venue: Starlight Stage

How amazing would it be to have a dad whose an astronaut? Rocket launches, zero gravity, and flying through space like a superhero! Jamie Drake’s dad is orbiting the earth in the International Space Station… until his mission goes wrong, and it’s up to Jamie, and the alien civilisation in his phone, to rescue him! Join author Christopher Edge to explore the real-life science behind his hilarious and heart-warming books The Jamie Drake Equation and the Many Worlds of Albie Bright.

7+

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Event W1

Saturday 27 May 2017, 10am - 12pm
Venue: Scribblers Hut

Leave your mark and help re-animate a classic short film. Join Dan Brown and Nick Brown from MASH Cinema and Hereford College of Arts to create and collage your own frames, and see the new film take shape over the weekend. Completed animation will be available on the Hay Festival website.

Age 3–7

2 hours

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Event S1

Saturday 27 May 2017, 10am
Venue: The Storytelling Nook

Come along to our immersive lantern-lit tented Storytelling Nook to listen to Veronica Lamond’s illustrated stories of Landy and Fender the lovable Land Rovers, and Kenyan author Aunty Kiko’s tale “Baby Elephant’s Safari, and experience how solar light is making a difference to millions of families in Africa.

Family event

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Event W2

Saturday 27 May 2017, 10am
Venue: Mess Tent

Get seriously messy with Jon Williams from Herefordshire’s Eastnor Pottery. You will see pottery demonstrations and create your own sculptural masterpieces to add to our forest critters’ colony or to take home...or both. One thing’s for sure...mud will fly!

Age 3–7

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Event 60

Myths & Legends of the Brecon Beacons

Saturday 27 May 2017, 11.30am
Venue: Baillie Gifford Stage

Discover the magic and myths hidden in the rolling hills of the Brecon Beacons. Find Arthur and his knights sleeping away the decades in a cave, and go on the search for the White Lady of Tretower Court with the award-winning author of Down To The Sea In Ships, The Prince’s Pen and Orison for a Curlew. Chaired by Peter Florence.

Event 61

Cambridge Series: The Force is Not With You

Saturday 27 May 2017, 11.30am
Venue: Oxfam Moot

Many of us would like to lead healthier lives, so what stops us? The Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit explains why risk information doesn’t change our unhealthy behaviour. Chaired by Hugh Muir.

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In association with Cambridge University

Event 62

Life: A Dialogue

Saturday 27 May 2017, 11.30am
Venue: Good Energy Stage

How and why do we survive, and what makes us unique? A conversation between a novelist and a scientist exploring the worlds they inhabit in Doctorow’s superb new speculative fiction Walkaway and Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes.

In partnership with Swansea University

Event 64

Saturday 27 May 2017, 11.30am
Venue: BBC Tent

Presenter Paddy O’Connell talks about life behind the scenes at the BBC and programme-making. Plus, he’ll give the audience a chance to influence the running order of the next edition of Broadcasting House.

FREE BUT TICKETED

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Join Broadcasting House live on air in the BBC Tent on Sunday 28 May at 9AM.

Event HD9

Saturday 27 May 2017, 11.30am
Venue: Tata Tent

Dick and Dom are coming back to Hay, and will be having a riot on stage with their new show Dick vs Dom where

they split the crowd in half and everyone play games against one another in the audience and on stage. It’s either that or everyone will just sit in silence and have 45 mins quiet reading time together...

Event HD10

The Wolves of Currumpaw and The Wolf Wilder

Saturday 27 May 2017, 11.30am
Venue: Starlight Stage

Wolves are the stuff of children’s fiction. Join award-winning illustrator William Grill and author Katherine Rundell as they discuss their respective books and the enduring fictional appeal of wolves. The Wolves of Currumpaw is the winner of the 2017 Bolognaragazzi Non-Fiction Award. Chaired by Jonathan Douglas, director of National Literacy Trust

9+

Katherine Rundell is selected for Hay 30 – celebrating a new generation of thinkers, supported by The CASE Foundation

Event W81

Minibeast Safari and Treasure Hunt

Saturday 27 May 2017, 11.30am
Venue: RSPB Stand

Ready for an adventure? Grab your nets and pots and come on a safari into the wild garden to find what creatures are hiding under the leaves, logs and in the long grass. Along the way you’ll discover the many shades of colours that nature takes, as you collect natural treasures and create a colour collage.

Family event

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Event W3

Saturday 27 May 2017, 11.30am - 1.30pm
Venue: The Storytelling Nook

Creative writing sessions with activities to help your stories grow. Come and explore your creativity with Emma, she has a wealth of experience running creative writing workshops and an infectious approach to building a story. Emma is currently writing a novel based on her sailing adventures in Svalbard and her educational writing includes Making Poetry Happen (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Age 6-8

2 hours

Free but ticketed

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Event W4

Saturday 27 May 2017, 11.30am
Venue: Mess Tent

Get seriously messy with Jon Williams from Herefordshire’s Eastnor Pottery. You will see pottery demonstrations and create your own sculptural masterpieces to add to our forest critters’ colony or to take home...or both. One thing’s for sure...mud will fly!

Age 8–11

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Event 607

Subject Areas – Technology, Innovation and Digital Culture

Saturday 27 May 2017, 12pm - 12.30pm
Venue: Compass

Please drop in to our Compass venue, quiz leading academics about their subject and engage in some critical thinking. As part of Hay Festival 2017 and with help from the Welsh Government we have invited a range of university lecturers and speakers to drop in, talk about their subject areas and about university life.

Event DT5

Early Lunch

Saturday 27 May 2017, 12pm
Venue: Relish Festival Restaurant

Book a seat in the Relish Festival Restaurant and receive a complimentary drink on us.

Enjoy a delicious meal from our Festival Restaurant buffet. Choose from a wide selection of hot and cold dishes created fresh onsite by our team of chefs using the best local seasonal produce.

Come up to the buffet and choose as much as you like from all the dishes on offer for just £20 per person. By booking online you will receive a complimentary glass of wine, bottle of beer or soft drink. You will also be able to reserve a seat in the restaurant where our team will be waiting to give you a warm welcome.

Award-winning Alex Gooch breads and water are free for every customer.

A selection of desserts and local cheeses from Neal's Yard Creamery is also available, plus a full bar and barista coffees.

Event W5

Saturday 27 May 2017, 12.30pm - 2.30pm
Venue: Scribblers Hut

Leave your mark and help re-animate a classic short film. Join Dan Brown and Nick Brown from MASH Cinema and Hereford College of Arts to create and collage your own frames, and see the new film take shape over the weekend. Completed animation will be available on the Hay Festival website.